Firefoxers get paid to convert IE users; Out of Site at Adage.com.(Mozilla Corp.'s)(Brief article)

Advertising Age, May, 2006

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Firefoxers get paid to convert IE users

Your friends may soon try to make a buck off of you. Mega-fans of Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox Web browser who call themselves "political activists'' have set into motion a campaign to switch users from Microsoft's Internet Explorer to Firefox. According to IDG News Service's Elizabeth Montalbano, "The Explorer Destroyer Web site . . . offers Web-site owners scripting technology that will detect if a visitor is running IE. If so, an alert will appear directing them to download Firefox either to view the site better or at all. Whenever a visitor to a Web site using the group's technology switches to Firefox from IE, the owner of the Web site will get the referral fee if they have signed up...

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